What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.